[yalooze]

We do exist :)

Cheeky shoutout for my side project https://www.musictaco.co.uk/ which lets you find where to buy a digital album the cheapest online. You can track your favourite artists and it will email you when they release a new album too. Feedback welcome!

[Minor49er]

Awesome site. Is there a way to submit releases or does it search them out through different vendors?

[yalooze]

Thank you! There isn’t a way to submit directly, rather it searches via the vendors. The base data is via the iTunes Search API[0] which is surprisingly accessible. Then it tries to grab more data from the other vendors.

Originally, I built it so all access was programmatic, it never stored anything but rather just triggered API calls, a bit of scraping and a matching algorithm.

But it does have database backed models now so you could technically add releases directly. Although deduping might be a bit of a nightmare.

[0]: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Au...

[alok-g]

This is very nice. It found a song I was looking for. It takes me to iTunes for purchase. And boom. They don't seem to be selling the song in India. I hate such policies by various stores.